Wholesome Family Activities for October

I've often heard it said, and believe it to be true, that "a family who prays together stays together."

It's also true that a family who plays together likes to stay together.  With that in mind, here are some fun family activities for October.  Choose some your family will enjoy and have a great time!

Please feel free to share your favorites in the comments below!  


Outings

• Take a walk, hike, bike ride, or drive to see the beautiful autumn leaves.  Take pictures.
• Gather or purchase pussy willows, leaves, acorns, etc. and make a fall wreath.
• Collect leaves and make leaf rubbings for a nature journal.
  
• Attend a state fair.
  
• Go apple picking in an orchard.
• Walk through a corn maze.
• Visit a pumpkin patch or festival.
• Take Saturday morning walks.
• Fly a kite.
• Play soccer at the park.
• Watch baseball games together.

Columbus Day  (Click link for details.)

• Learn about Christopher Columbus.
  
• Create something about Columbus.
  
• Go on an outing and talk about Columbus' experience.
  
• Reflect on your family and individual dreams together.
  
• Learn about other people who have risen to their dreams.
  

Halloween

• Decorate the house and yard together.
  
• Tell Halloween stories by candle light or flashlight.
  
• Choose and carve pumpkins as a family, or
  
• Have a pumpkin carving party, with bobbing for apples, hot cider, and hay rides.
• Invite friends and family to come visit in costume. Take pictures.
• Visit a "haunted house."
  
• Watch "Monster's Inc."
  
• Volunteer to give out candy at the mall on Halloween night.
  
• Hold a neighborhood Halloween party with games and treats.
  
• Go trick or treating.
  

Food Fun

• Make a harvest basket to share.  Fill it with garden bounty or other treats.
• Make doughnuts, scones, cinnamon rolls, or pumpkin bread.
• Make applesauce from scratch.
  
• Bake apples or make apple cinnamon rolls.
  
• Roast pumpkin seeds.
  
• Make pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread.
  
• Read the book, "Stone Soup," and make a nice pot of soup to share.
• Eat dinner by pumpkin candle light.
• Build a bonfire and roast hotdogs and marshmallows.
  
• Have a picnic at the park.
  
• Eat outside at night.

Fun at Home

• Play in a pile of leaves, then rake them up together.
  
• Clear out the garden together.
  
• Make a scarecrow.
• Have a yard sale to get ready for new items. 
  
• Play board games together.
  
• Gather together at night time and visit or tell stories in the dark.
• Watch "The Pride of the Yankees" or "The Rookie."

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